Romeo and Juliet: the integral role of violence and honour to masculinity
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of the 'Romeo and Juliet' plot, characters and themes from the unit 'Romeo and Juliet: exploring the role of love and fate'. Pupils build on this initial understanding of the play by developing increasingly nuanced and tentative intepretations, and starting to think more critically about how the characters have been portrayed. This unit builds towards the second deep dive, 'Juliet and female agency' where pupils will think more deeply about the presentation of women in the play.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the plot of the play
- Pupils know the main characters in the play and their role in the plot
- Pupils have an understanding of the main themes of the play
- Pupils can structure arguments clearly, using thesis statements, topic sentences and single paragraph outlines
- Pupils have memorised a number of key quotations from the novella
- Pupils can identify the main motifs of the play - blood, sleep and nature
- Pupils know the historical and social context of the play
- Pupils can select a variety of quotations as evidence, to support their analysis
- Pupils use comparative language to compare characters' actions
- Pupils can use phrases such as 'more specifically' and 'more precisely' to add detail to their inferences
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of the 'Romeo and Juliet' plot, characters and themes from the unit 'Romeo and Juliet: exploring the role of love and fate'. Pupils build on this initial understanding of the play by developing increasingly nuanced and tentative intepretations, and starting to think more critically about how the characters have been portrayed. This unit builds towards the second deep dive, 'Juliet and female agency' where pupils will think more deeply about the presentation of women in the play.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the plot of the play
- Pupils know the main characters in the play and their role in the plot
- Pupils have an understanding of the main themes of the play
- Pupils can structure arguments clearly, using thesis statements, topic sentences and single paragraph outlines
- Pupils have memorised a number of key quotations from the novella
- Pupils can identify the main motifs of the play - blood, sleep and nature
- Pupils know the historical and social context of the play
- Pupils can select a variety of quotations as evidence, to support their analysis
- Pupils use comparative language to compare characters' actions
- Pupils can use phrases such as 'more specifically' and 'more precisely' to add detail to their inferences
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Romeo and Juliet: the integral role of violence and honour to masculinity
In this unit, pupils look at the interplay between violence, honour, and masculinity in 'Romeo and Juliet'. They look at key scenes, and what they reveal about key male characters, before finally looking at how to use context and quotations effectively in an analytical essay.
7 lessons in unit
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